PCMag Live for Wednesday, April 23 is hosted by Alex Colon and Dan Costa.

In our Headline News segment, lawyers for Aereo argued their case before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, and the High Court appears to be conflicted over the case. Aereo allows users to rent an OTA antenna that will capture broadcast television channels. Aereo then transmits these channels over the Internet to your home for $8-$10 a month. This could be a way for people who can't get good broadcast reception to get "free" channels. Problem is, broadcasters want Aereo to pay the same retransmission fees that cable companies pay. For more, check out Aereo: Everything You Need to Know.

Also in the news, HBO and Amazon are teaming up to stream HBO shows on Amazon Prime Instant Video. But to be clear, Amazon Prime users are not getting free access to HBO GO. The HBO deal means some older HBO shows will be added to Amazon's streaming service. But if you want to watch (or re-live) The Sopranos without paying for cable and an HBO subscription, you'll have your chance starting May 21. All of HBO's content via HBO GO will, however, be coming to the Amazon Fire TV set-top box by year's end for those with an HBO GO login.

Meanwhile, Akamai just released its latest State of the Internet Report, which covers the fourth quarter of 2013. The good news is that Internet service is getting faster, but the bad news is that it's more open to attack than ever. Dan and Alex pick apart the data and drop some fun facts.

Today's Reader Question is from Abraham via an email. "I've heard all this talk about WhatsApp but I don't know anybody who uses it. Is it something I should be using?" The answer may shock you.

Finally, we always pull One Cool Thing off the shelves of the PCMag Lab, and today's gadget is the new One Plus One phone. OnePlus is a new Chinese phone manufacturer headed up by a former Oppo vice president. But the OnePlus One sports Galaxy S5-level specs for a fraction of the cost.

About the Author

Alex Colon is the managing editor of PCMag's consumer electronics team. He previously covered mobile technology for PCMag and Gigaom.
Though he does the majority of his reading and writing on various digital displays, Alex still loves to sit down with a good, old-fashioned, paper and ink book in his free time. (Not that there's anything wrong wit... See Full Bio

Dan Costa is the Editor-in-Chief of PCMag.com and the Senior Vice President of Content for Ziff-Davis. He oversees the editorial operations for PCMag.com, Geek.com, ExtremeTech.com as well as PCMag's network of blogs, including AppScout and SecurityWatch. Dan makes frequent appearances on local, national, and international news programs, including ... See Full Bio

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